 /*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/

 package org.eclipse.ui.internal.cheatsheets.composite.parser;

 import org.eclipse.ui.internal.cheatsheets.composite.model.AbstractTask;
 import org.w3c.dom.Node ;

 /**
  * Interface which encapsulates the parsing logic specific to different
  * task kinds.
  */

 public interface ITaskParseStrategy {

     /**
      * Called before parsing a new set of children
      */
     public void init();
     
     /**
      * Parse a child node of this task
      * @param childNode The child node
      * @param parentNode The task node
      * @param parentTask The task object
      * @param status Used to add error messages.
      * @return True if this element is a valid child
      */
     public boolean parseElementNode(Node childNode, Node parentNode, AbstractTask parentTask, IStatusContainer status);
     
     /**
      * Called afer all the children have been parsed to check for missing children
      */
     public void parsingComplete(AbstractTask parentTask, IStatusContainer status);


 }

